Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 74 58
Rank change year-on-year -43 -16 -11
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,320 1,495 3,644
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.67% 3.65% 4.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 3.92% 4.71%
Number of salaries quoted 880 1,030 2,782
10th Percentile £50,468 £47,500 £43,813
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,703 £75,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +14.57% -15.53%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +9.38% -1.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,590 38,104 77,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.71% 93.07% 86.51%
Number of salaries quoted 37,239 22,363 57,730
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -7.83%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 31 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 31 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -34 1,204 £77,500 +3.33% 515
London +6 661 £87,500 +2.94% 226
Work from Home -22 589 £70,000 -2.77% 349
UK excluding London -108 553 £67,500 -3.57% 339
North of England -49 248 £65,000 -9.71% 130
North West -42 115 £67,500 -3.57% 76
South East -120 108 £75,000 +11.11% 90
Yorkshire -42 96 £69,305 -3.73% 31
South West -64 64 £65,000 -7.48% 35
Midlands -59 58 £67,500 +3.85% 36
East of England -30 38 £63,750 +10.87% 20
North East +5 37 £65,000 +23.81% 28
West Midlands -27 32 £70,000 - 21
Scotland -89 29 £60,000 -20.00% 16
East Midlands -61 25 £67,500 +3.85% 15
Wales -26 7 £55,200 +8.24% 13
Northern Ireland -36 5 £62,500 +13.64% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 30 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 19 (1.44%) Apache
3 18 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (1.21%) Confluence
4 16 (1.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 14 (1.06%) OpenStack
6 13 (0.98%) JBoss
7 11 (0.83%) WebSphere
8 10 (0.76%) IIS
9 9 (0.68%) CMS
10 5 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.38%) Appian
11 4 (0.30%) Camunda
11 4 (0.30%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.30%) nginx
12 3 (0.23%) Liferay
12 3 (0.23%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
14 1 (0.076%) CICS
Applications
1 14 (1.06%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.76%) Maya
2 10 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.30%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 9 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.38%) Endur
4 4 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.15%) SAP FS
5 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.15%) Shopify
6 1 (0.076%) Actimize
6 1 (0.076%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.076%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.076%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.076%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.076%) Quorum
6 1 (0.076%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.076%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.076%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 729 (55.23%) AWS
2 572 (43.33%) Azure
3 303 (22.95%) GCP
4 227 (17.20%) Serverless
5 172 (13.03%) SaaS
6 115 (8.71%) GitHub
7 107 (8.11%) Amazon S3
8 104 (7.88%) AWS Lambda
9 96 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
10 92 (6.97%) Amazon EKS
11 70 (5.30%) AWS CloudFormation
12 67 (5.08%) Amazon SQS
13 62 (4.70%) Amazon ECS
14 49 (3.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 49 (3.71%) Amazon EC2
15 47 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
16 46 (3.48%) OpenShift
17 44 (3.33%) PaaS
18 38 (2.88%) Azure Service Bus
19 34 (2.58%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.86%) Broadband
2 10 (0.76%) HTTP
3 8 (0.61%) AMQP
4 7 (0.53%) Internet
5 6 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (0.45%) Firewall
5 6 (0.45%) Network Security
6 5 (0.38%) DHCP
6 5 (0.38%) DNS
6 5 (0.38%) MQTT
7 4 (0.30%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.30%) SNMP
7 4 (0.30%) WAN
8 3 (0.23%) Modbus
8 3 (0.23%) Multicast
8 3 (0.23%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.15%) LTE
9 2 (0.15%) SSL
10 1 (0.076%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (13.79%) NoSQL
2 172 (13.03%) PostgreSQL
3 120 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 114 (8.64%) SQL Server
5 75 (5.68%) MySQL
6 62 (4.70%) DynamoDB
6 62 (4.70%) Relational Database
7 48 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
8 39 (2.95%) Redis
9 31 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
10 30 (2.27%) Big Data
10 30 (2.27%) BigQuery
11 27 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (1.59%) RDBMS
13 16 (1.21%) Power BI
14 13 (0.98%) DB2
14 13 (0.98%) Pinecone
15 12 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (0.83%) Data Lake
17 10 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 170 (12.88%) Git
2 116 (8.79%) Jenkins
3 81 (6.14%) GitLab
4 54 (4.09%) TeamCity
5 43 (3.26%) JIRA
6 37 (2.80%) Cucumber
7 35 (2.65%) JUnit
8 31 (2.35%) Cypress.io
8 31 (2.35%) Selenium
9 29 (2.20%) CircleCI
10 19 (1.44%) Bitbucket
11 18 (1.36%) Mockito
12 17 (1.29%) Maven
13 11 (0.83%) Claude Code
13 11 (0.83%) Vite
14 10 (0.76%) JMeter
14 10 (0.76%) Postman
15 9 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
16 8 (0.61%) Visual Studio
17 7 (0.53%) NUnit
General
1 396 (30.00%) Finance
2 363 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 163 (12.35%) Banking
4 106 (8.03%) Law
5 92 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
6 82 (6.21%) Public Sector
7 75 (5.68%) Retail
8 69 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 57 (4.32%) Financial Institution
10 53 (4.02%) Telecoms
11 44 (3.33%) Back Office
12 21 (1.59%) Games
12 21 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.44%) Billing
13 19 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (1.29%) Advertising
14 17 (1.29%) Legal
15 14 (1.06%) Marketing
16 11 (0.83%) Manufacturing
16 11 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 459 (34.77%) Developer
2 346 (26.21%) Senior
3 271 (20.53%) Software Engineer
4 203 (15.38%) Architect
5 164 (12.42%) Lead
6 119 (9.02%) Full-Stack Developer
7 116 (8.79%) Senior Developer
8 105 (7.95%) Java Developer
9 95 (7.20%) Solutions Architect
10 94 (7.12%) Senior Software Engineer
11 81 (6.14%) Java Engineer
12 75 (5.68%) .NET Developer
13 65 (4.92%) Software Developer
14 52 (3.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 47 (3.56%) Java Software Engineer
16 46 (3.48%) Lead Developer
17 41 (3.11%) Principal Engineer
18 39 (2.95%) C# Developer
19 37 (2.80%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 36 (2.73%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 304 (23.03%) .NET
2 298 (22.58%) React
3 267 (20.23%) RESTful
4 218 (16.52%) Spring
5 206 (15.61%) REST
6 196 (14.85%) Node.js
7 193 (14.62%) Spring Boot
8 172 (13.03%) Kafka
9 112 (8.48%) AngularJS
10 97 (7.35%) .NET Core
11 91 (6.89%) gRPC
12 79 (5.98%) HTML
13 69 (5.23%) .NET Framework
14 68 (5.15%) CSS
15 61 (4.62%) ASP.NET
16 58 (4.39%) RabbitMQ
17 56 (4.24%) Vue
18 53 (4.02%) Django
18 53 (4.02%) Middleware
19 46 (3.48%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 381 (28.86%) Cloud Native
2 224 (16.97%) Distributed Systems
3 105 (7.95%) Product Ownership
4 101 (7.65%) Enterprise Software
5 58 (4.39%) Greenfield Project
6 49 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (3.41%) Over-the-Top Content
7 45 (3.41%) Video\Live Streaming
8 37 (2.80%) Data Structures
9 33 (2.50%) Algorithms
10 30 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
11 25 (1.89%) Blockchain
12 24 (1.82%) Virtual Team
13 23 (1.74%) Distributed Architecture
14 22 (1.67%) AI Agents
15 21 (1.59%) Mobile App
16 17 (1.29%) IoT
17 16 (1.21%) Management Information System
18 15 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
18 15 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (4.24%) Linux
2 23 (1.74%) Windows
3 16 (1.21%) Android
4 7 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.45%) Unix
6 5 (0.38%) CentOS
6 5 (0.38%) Debian
6 5 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.15%) VMS
8 1 (0.076%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 639 (48.41%) CI/CD
2 538 (40.76%) Agile
3 513 (38.86%) DevOps
4 512 (38.79%) Software Engineering
5 376 (28.48%) Containerisation
6 322 (24.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 291 (22.05%) Problem-Solving
8 271 (20.53%) Mentoring
9 258 (19.55%) Event-Driven
10 248 (18.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 243 (18.41%) Test Automation
12 235 (17.80%) AI
13 205 (15.53%) Computer Science
14 182 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
15 156 (11.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 154 (11.67%) Scrum
17 152 (11.52%) Clean Code
17 152 (11.52%) Technical Leadership
18 146 (11.06%) Roadmaps
19 145 (10.98%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 427 (32.35%) Java
2 359 (27.20%) Python
3 279 (21.14%) SQL
4 261 (19.77%) JavaScript
5 251 (19.02%) C#
6 209 (15.83%) TypeScript
7 123 (9.32%) Go
8 51 (3.86%) Scala
9 41 (3.11%) PHP
10 37 (2.80%) C++
11 34 (2.58%) C
12 33 (2.50%) Bash
13 28 (2.12%) Ruby
14 22 (1.67%) Kotlin
15 19 (1.44%) PL/SQL
16 15 (1.14%) PowerShell
16 15 (1.14%) Shell Script
17 13 (0.98%) Rust
18 8 (0.61%) Bicep
19 6 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 201 (15.23%) Degree
2 128 (9.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 107 (8.11%) Security Cleared
4 74 (5.61%) SC Cleared
5 58 (4.39%) AWS Certification
6 41 (3.11%) Master's Degree
7 37 (2.80%) Azure Certification
8 30 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
9 26 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
10 15 (1.14%) DV Cleared
11 14 (1.06%) CISSP
12 9 (0.68%) CISM
13 8 (0.61%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.45%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 5 (0.38%) ISACA
15 5 (0.38%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (5.61%) QA
2 30 (2.27%) GDPR
3 28 (2.12%) PCI DSS
4 26 (1.97%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.98%) SOC 2
7 12 (0.91%) NIST
8 10 (0.76%) NCSC
9 6 (0.45%) GRC
10 4 (0.30%) EMIR
10 4 (0.30%) IFRS
10 4 (0.30%) SLA
11 3 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.23%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.23%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.23%) SEPA
11 3 (0.23%) WCAG
12 2 (0.15%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.15%) PSD2
12 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 406 (30.76%) Docker
2 13 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.38%) Firmware
4 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 399 (30.23%) Kubernetes
2 223 (16.89%) Terraform
3 87 (6.59%) Grafana
4 67 (5.08%) Ansible
5 37 (2.80%) Prometheus
6 21 (1.59%) Kibana
7 14 (1.06%) Argo
8 9 (0.68%) HP Fortify
8 9 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.45%) Puppet
10 4 (0.30%) Cilium
10 4 (0.30%) Istio
11 3 (0.23%) Nagios
11 3 (0.23%) Rancher
12 2 (0.15%) MIIS
12 2 (0.15%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.076%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 125 (9.47%) Microsoft
2 57 (4.32%) Google
3 48 (3.64%) Oracle
4 45 (3.41%) Typelevel
5 17 (1.29%) Salesforce
6 16 (1.21%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.21%) Red Hat
6 16 (1.21%) SAP
7 13 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
7 13 (0.98%) Dynatrace
8 11 (0.83%) IBM
8 11 (0.83%) Software AG
9 10 (0.76%) Atlassian
9 10 (0.76%) BiZZdesign
9 10 (0.76%) Cisco
9 10 (0.76%) Databricks
9 10 (0.76%) MuleSoft
9 10 (0.76%) Palo Alto
9 10 (0.76%) Splunk
10 7 (0.53%) Guidewire